End of the road for the charger and challenger

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

Dodge Charger Daytona SRT


"Back to the sound. This is the industry's first exhaust system for an electric vehicle, producing a similar 126-decibel sound as the one coming from the today's Hellcat engine. Dodge calls it "Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust." When the Daytona converts electricity to power, air flows through the exhaust system and the sound produced goes through an amplifier and tuning chamber at the rear of the vehicle. You can see and feel the pressure from the exhaust coming out the back."











Maybe fake exhausts will catch on.

So you are saying teenagers that sell dope will still be doing donuts at 1am next to my house? Great.

This looks great. The Hornet and this are great looking designs. Much better than the outgoing models. I hope they can keep it looking similar when they make it.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by soundman98

this is entirely false. first from an OEM maybe, but not the first EV exhaust.

https://www.hautopart.com/products/m...-sound-exhaust
https://www.fabspeed.com/fabspeed-te...xhaust-system/
https://www.millteksport.com/products/tesla.html

I think they mean ‘first EV exhaust’ in that expelled air is producing sound through its own resonance and then goes through an amplifier, and air will be felt leaving the tailpipe. This is different than moving air by creating waves with speakers in the tailpipes. It’ll be more like the sound tube in the engine bay of the 86 over a speaker system. At least that’s what I got from the article.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

"Back to the sound. This is the industry's first exhaust system for an electric vehicle, producing a similar 126-decibel sound as the one coming from the today's Hellcat engine. Dodge calls it "Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust." When the Daytona converts electricity to power, air flows through the exhaust system and the sound produced goes through an amplifier and tuning chamber at the rear of the vehicle. You can see and feel the pressure from the exhaust coming out the back."

Nice piece of wasted engineering. Sorry, but I don't want fake noise in an EV, or any car for that matter.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

the cops around the midwest have almost entirely transitioned to tahoes and explorers. volts are unlikely for quite a while.

if you hadn't heard before, the michigan state troopers do comprehensive testing of pursuit vehicles. their testing is highly respected across the nation, and generally sets the tone for pursuit vehicle aquisitions for the rest of the year.

here's 2022, from what i can tell, one of the first years they've tested an ev:
https://www.michigan.gov/msp/-/media...A2DF0EB9D8F7F7

they tested the mach-e. it comes in at or near the bottom of almost every test except braking and mpg, with major point reductions in interior space/comfort. so it's somewhat unlikely that many departments will buy many for general use.

The they will be driving Volts was a joke but little did I know

[Sasquachulator]

Originally Posted by dpfarr

Wonder if there’s better sound or mechanism for them you know? I don’t want a v12 noise for my supercharged 4 cylinder.

Just upload the sound from a laptop...

i'd make all my EV's sound like this:

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The they will be driving Volts was a joke but little did I know

Pretty much any vehicle can be and is used as a police car. I see the one below (a smart) all the time. One of the local jurisdictions uses it when responding to or patrolling the Silver Comet Trail which passes within walking distance of my home.

[mazeroni]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Nice piece of wasted engineering. Sorry, but I don't want fake noise in an EV, or any car for that matter.

It is a gimmick for sure, but we know the market for the Charger and Challengers. Those people want loud. Then, other people will hear it and want it too. The car market will have to respond when shoppers go in to buy a car and ask the dealer why it doesn't have any noise.

I'll be most curious to see how it is designed on the inside and how it all comes together to be more than "just a speaker." From there, I'm guessing you could figure out how to make an EV sound like anything, even a 250 GTO.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

I'll be most curious to see how it is designed on the inside and how it all comes together to be more than "just a speaker." From there, I'm guessing you could figure out how to make an EV sound like anything, like a 250 GTO.

The 250GTO sounds great, but it produces it's own sounds (well with a little exhaust system tuning).

I don't know, it just feels a little like fake it to make it to me. No personal interest in an internal or external sound creator.

That said, I do get some folks would want this just like they want their cars tuned a certain way just to make noise, or fellow bikers that think their motorcycle needs to rattle windows "to be safe". Just not my style.

[dpfarr]

Originally Posted by Sasquachulator

Just upload the sound from a laptop...

Not bad, I might go for like the dial up modem noises. Obviously progressively getting louder as acceleration increases.

[bcj]

They're encroaching on Harley Davidsons power into noise patents.
Here come da Judge, here come da Judge ...

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by bcj

They're encroaching on Harley Davidsons power into noise patents.
Here come da Judge, here come da Judge ...

I'll take one!



Oh, not what you meant?

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Lantanafrs2

End of the road for the charger and challenger

Why not just turn around and go back the way they came?

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

the interior looks pretty complete--i suspect it's pretty close to the final production spec. but that back half... it just looks like they ran out of room on the platform size and quick dropped the roof down to match up to the trunk.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Why not just turn around and go back the way they came?

That was pretty much what they did with the Challenger back in 2008.